If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you. — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer. — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt.… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
According to the orthodox Christian's Bible, all religions do not lead to God. — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
